Few days ago I got a sudden impulse to make paper flowers and use them as props in a photo. Originally I intended to take them outside to the woods because I thought that artificial, paper flowers would look cool in natural environment such as woods but weather haven’t been on my side so I changed my mind and shot this indoors self-portrait with an easel you can see above.

Here are also some a couple of “making of set” photos:

While cutting shapes for flowers I was putting left over paper into this big jar and in the end I like the way it looked so I used it in a photo. You know how they say, one man’s junk is another man’s art or something like that hehe.

Growing a paper garden. On the right you can see “the set”. The little hoses were actually made to be props on another photo called Sing me to sleep ( until now it was posted only on my flickr):

And, in the end here is an illustration inspired by the garden theme:

"Lucky garden", 70×50 cm, mixed media
This is a second collaboration with Arlen Dean (Alkaline Samurai on flickr), it was very fun making it. It was Arlen’s idea to get a big poster paper and first add some abstract colorful paper cut outs and then draw around them.

I’m not on my vacation anymore, so I’m looking forward to catching up with your blogs as soon as I can. Have a wonderful week everyone!